"The company wants to reinvent community-based repositories of information, such as Quora or Wikipedia, using a chatbot to generate the entries instead of humans. "
"some of the higher ups at Salesforce told me they were pretty ticked off about how the employees seemed to have declined in engagement and productivity. "
I wonder, could it be that people are at their emotional wits end over what has happened to their lives since 2019?
I think companies, especially Google, should have thought about the implications of massive hiring associated with things like X, then shutting them down en mass creating a situation where you have staff playing musical chairs trying to find a place to land.
"it is a great excuse to lay off the low performers"
It is a great excuse to get rid anyone who disagreed with corporate changes
or mangage to anger anyone in the management chain. Most big companies just put you on 'special' projects, then if you don't get the hint to leave, bundle you into the layoff pool.
I have amber alerts disabled because I can't imagine recognising someone driving around, with everything else going on in life.
I have only heard the emergency broadcast system for real in the '89 bay area quake (I've heard tests many times). But I understand it's used frequently (legitimately) in tornado-prone areas.
In southern California we get emergency alerts for fire and flood evacuation orders. They are legitimately useful, when an evacuation order happens you want to know asap.
EAS radio announcements go out in the Bay Area for flooding (at least they are supposed to) I know we were careful to do it for Santa Clara county at KFJC
Right. If the Amber Alerts had pictures with them, they might actually be useful.
There's no way I'm going to confront someone on the streets (or even call the cops) based solely on a vague text description like "8-year-old girl with brown hair wearing a tee shirt and jeans".
